Re: IDE raid - which is better ?
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hi,
>
> I am putting together a workstation which will have raid. I found the
> following vendors which have ide raid controllers:
>
> www.promise.com (fastrack100)
> www.3ware.com (escalade 3w-6200)
>
> I will be doing raid 0 (striping) strictly for performance. Does anyone
> have experience with these cards or any other cards? Any
> recommendations/comments welcome.
Avoid the Promise FastTrak for RAID under anything except Windows. It's
driver, besided being totally closed-source and RedHat specific, has been
known to cause data corruption, and have huge performance pentalties
(poor locking etc).
Note, however, that the non-RAID Promise cards totally rock :)
I've never used one of the 3ware cards, but I've heard good things about
them.
My opinion is that you should simply use one of the non-RAID cards with
Linux's native software RAID0 or RAID1 code.
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